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List:       opensolaris-install-discuss
Subject:    [install-discuss] Solaris 10 Update 3 - Installing inside VMWare
From:       Darren Reed <darren.reed () sun ! com>
Date:       2007-04-18 13:02:09
Message-ID: 1905714.1176926559661.JavaMail.Twebapp () oss-app1
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Last night I tried to install S10U3 inside vmware on a 500GB disk but ran into a "small" problem: the disk partitioning using by Solaris (fdisk) does not seem able to deal with large disks as presented by VMWare.  To test whether or not it was a vmware vs solaris bug, I tried FreeBSD - it recognised the disk and its MBR table correctly.  Is this a known bug?  Or an issue for some other forum/group?

Is OpenSolaris any better in this regard?

Solaris fdisk reports (500GB disk):
 
Partition   Status    Type          Start   End   Length    %
=========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ======   ===
    1                 Ext Win95         0  4176    4177     25
    2                 Ext Win95      4177  8353    4177     25
    3                 EXT LBA        8254  54426    46073    100

FreeBSD: 
Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype    Flags
         0         63         62        -     12     unused        0
        63   67103505   67103504    ad0s1      7        fat       12
  67103505   67103505  134207009    ad0s2      7        fat       12
 134207010  740162745  874369754    ad0s3      4 extended DOS, LBA       15
 874369755  102398310  976768064        -     12     unused        0

Actual:
Physical: 60801,255,63
Partition 1: 0,1,1 -> 4176,254,63
Partition 2: 4177,0,1 -> 8353,254,63
Partition 3: 8354,0,1 -> 54426,63 (extended)
Partition 3a: 8354,1,1 -> 12612,254,63 (logical)
Partition 3b: 12613,1,1 -> 15926,254,63 (logical)
Partition 3c: 15927,1,1 -> 54426,254,63 (logical)
Unallocated: 54427,0,1 -> 60800,254,63
 
 
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